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Country City Name Years Image Argentina Buenos Aires: Otras Letras [109] [110]: 2009 to 2013 [111] [112] Canada Montreal: Librairie L'Androgyne: 1973 to 2002 [113]: Ottawa: After Stonewall [114]
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By the early 1960s, a campaign to rid New York City of gay bars was in full effect by order of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr., who was concerned about the image of the city in preparation for the 1964 World's Fair. The city revoked the liquor licenses of the bars, and undercover police officers worked to entrap as many homosexual men as possible. [61]
On June 23, 2015, the Stonewall Inn was the first landmark in New York City to be recognized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on the basis of its status in LGBT history, [18] and on June 24, 2016, the Stonewall National Monument was named the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to the LGBTQ-rights movement. [19]
Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote that New York City has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful" LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theatre". [4]
Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, wrote that New York City has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theater". [117]
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This is a list of gay villages, areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. [1] They tend to contain a number of gay lodgings, B&Bs, bars, clubs and pubs, restaurants, cafés, and other similar businesses.